Lazy Danes: Our Adventure in Texas: We're Here!

Happy New Year! Let me tell you, Texans like gunpowder in any form and last night was the most impressive display of non commercial fireworks I have ever seen. Every direction we looked someone was launching mortars and bottle rockets. When I took the dogs out for the night the air was heavy with the smell of smoke and explosive powders. Woot!

For our celebration, we took the kids to a special event at the Rainforest Cafe in the Houston Galleria. Holy Cow - what a mall!! Of note- a Disney Store (not an outlet!), Apple store , Rainforest Cafe, Cheesecake Factory, and an indoor-year-round iceskating rink!

Cha Cha frog plate

Willow in awe of the volcano

Yay! Volcano!

Our trip down was so much better than I anticipated. We got on I-40 at 7:00 am after packing up the last bits and seeing my parents and Joy and Grace. We drove straight through- the dogs, kids, and my jeep pulling the trailer all did great. We arrived at 1:30am central time. Huge thanks to Doug for traveling with us, loading the trailer just right , and driving the Jeep the majority of the way.

Butter rode 18 1/2 hours of the 19 1/2 hour trip on my lap or Doug's lap.

The kids love the house; the dogs are adjusting well. We've been going out and getting supplies daily- some planned, some not so much.We got some towels, and blankets, my new vacuum (Dyson Animal), a cordless drill, trashcans, a toaster, and other daily things. We also go our new bedroom suite - it'll be delivered next week. Then we decided to get a Keurig coffee maker for the bathroom since we packed our big one and NEED coffee first thing.

At least we brought the Fuf- the dogs are happy.

Coffee!!

Our bedroom suite

Doug and Willow in her turret- built in bookcase with a trap door!

One purchase I'm quite excited about is the new elevated dog bowls. They're actually planters from Lowes! They're taller, and cheaper than anything I could find listed as dog feeders. Yay! In the picture it's upside down until I can add something to make the bowl sit right inside- but you get the idea.